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From: Julian Elischer <julian@vicor.com>
Subject: Re: USB vendore designations..
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:53:10 -0800

> 
> 
> M. Warner Losh wrote:
> > In message: <41CBF07C.3040108@augustsson.net>
> >             Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net> writes:
> > [[ NetBSD uses the form Foo and FreeBSD uses Foo Inc or Foo Electric ]]
> > : I would nnot consider the expanded definitions as
> > : progress.  I would not apply the patch.  I'm of the
> > : old school that thinks that even a few kB are worth
> > : saving. :)
> > 
> > I agree.  In fact, I'm in the process of merging together the FreeBSD
> > and NetBSD usbdevs and one of the things I'm doing is removing the
> > extranious Inc, Electric, Technologies, etc where FreeBSD and NetBSD
> > conflict.
> > 
> > In fact, I've thought about doing the same thing to the NetBSD file
> > where it is inconsistant, but so far haven't asked if that's OK.  I'd
> > also thought about merging the FreeBSD vendor/devices into NetBSD,
> > but that's a lot of extra bytes into the table...
> 
> there is also the LINUX table.
> a competent perl hacker could write something to merge that with us too.

That would  be someone else.  The *BSD world should really have one
table, and 'contiential drift' has happened in the 5 years or so this
table has been out there.

Warner